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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1906
Page
4
A pair of youths laid iron on a track to make an engine jump and nearly caused a serious express wreck. The incident hints a misunderstanding of the frog’s location. A broad mix of items follows, from military encampments to health quips and cattle breeds.
Massillon state hospital prepares a stricter departmental setup with three divisions led by Drs Brown OBrien and Tatie plus Adair Montgomery. A watchman time clock system will be installed, enabling precise nightly reports from forty stations. Dr Eyman advocates a separate facility for criminal insanity, pushing for a Lima hospital after years of campaigning.
Beach City Aug 10 The Winesburg special school district board will ask district voters whether to abandon the district. A special election is set for August 15. In other notes, A. S. Ackerman reports his father’s return to vigor in Anselmo, and local residents attend funerals and a band festival is planned for September 1. East Greenville youngsters and area residents attend gatherings and visits with neighbors as summer activities continue.
Democratic primaries held Saturday in the city drew scant interest with precinct judges recording only two or three votes in some locations. Most prominent Democrats forgot or were unaware the primaries were happening, and no office contests occurred except for delegates to the congressional convention, fifteen chosen from eighteen candidates.
A historical note traces how women's legal status shifted from near total subjugation to wider rights over the past century. It recounts debts, wills, property, guardianship, and child custody once controlled by husbands, with references to English and North Carolina precedents and a late 19th century directive on religious upbringing.
A Philadelphia boy washing his face had soap in his eyes, fell from a step and fractured his elbow. The note ends with a caution that small boys can show this to mamma and a brief ad for service and low rates through the agent.
The Mecca for summer visitors, Turkeyfoot Lake along the east shore is lined with cottages of Massillon and Akron residents. The article describes access plans, camp life, and amenities, noting breezy beauty, mosquito challenges, and a growing sense the lake may gain rail or canal connections.
Urgent appeal touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for diverse kidney ailments affecting children, women, men, and the elderly. Massillon resident Q C Brady testifies to personal and family benefits, urging purchases from local dealers at 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo markets the remedy nationwide.
Massillon market report for Saturday August 11 lists paying prices for country butter Gees and old chickens dressed and spring chickens live, potatoes per bushel, and grain prices including wheat hay oats corn per bushel or ton. An excursion to Deer Park Maryland along with B and O lines notes a pleasant mountain summer resort and very low August rates with agent consultations.
Readers learn where to travel via Wisconsin Central Railway to Waukesha Waupaca Fifield St Paul Minneapolis Ash Superior Duluth and other resorts. The notice invites requests for the Summer Book with travel details and costs and is signed by Jas C Pond G P A Milwaukee. Also promotes Dean's Regulets laxatives and B O excursion to Cleveland with schedule and price.
After a year’s closure the Mudbrook mine near Crystal Spring may restart traffic as Massillon Coal Mining Company drills a new area led by Harvey Miller. At 200 feet a grey rock layer suggests coal, with a four-farm stretch east of the old mine on Fulton road. If proven, entries could form a spider web and provide ample local employment. The piece also notes railway rate issues and a New York City round trip offer from Massillon, urging readers to follow Independents for updates.
Pittsburg reports examine whether Pennsylvania Company and other trunk lines ignore Ohio two cent rate law. Through tickets from Ohio state lines keep higher fares, raising traveler costs. Comparisons show potential savings by splitting journeys via Ohio and paying two cents per mile, while baggage checks add travel friction.
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